Doubting Women in Early Modern Italy

This book explores early modern Italian women as agents of doubt. While women were often considered prone to doubt as a result of their natural “weakness,” the essays gathered here reverse this view, demonstrating how women were able to embrace doubt as a means to expand their agency. Using doubt to contest both official narratives as well as religious and civil practices, women were able to carve out a space of their own in contemporary culture and society. The volume covers a period from the l